A surgical cure for…migraines??
Monday, September 14th, 2009Filed under: Uncategorized
Quoting The New York Times:
Earlier last month, news of a surgical “cure” that touts a high success rate ricocheted worldwide. The double-blind study, published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, found that more than 80 percent of patients who underwent surgery in one of three “trigger sites” significantly reduced their number of headaches compared with more than 55 percent of the group who had sham surgery. More than half of the patients with the real surgery reported a “complete elimination” of headaches compared with about 4 percent of the placebo group. Forehead lifts are cosmetic procedures that plastic surgeons typically perform to smooth furrowed brows. But a decade ago, after some of his patients reported that their migraines improved post-operation, Dr. Bahman Guyuron, a plastic surgeon and the lead author of the study, began to search for a surgical solution that could address migraine trigger points—which he defines as where the headache begins and settles—in the forehead, temples and the back of the head. Headache specialists tend to be neurologists or internists, so Dr. Guyuron’s work has not always been taken seriously.
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